Top500 – SC17 http://sc17.supercomputing.org The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:04:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 120047766 SC17 Invited Talk Profile: The TOP500 List – Past, Present and Future http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/09/11/6034/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:34:02 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=6034 Abstract Description: Since 1993, The TOP500 list has served as the defining yardstick for supercomputing performance. And at SC17 in November, the 50th TOP500 list will be announced. Published twice a year, it is a compilation of the world’s 500 largest installations and some of their main characteristics. Systems are ranked according to their performance on the Linpack benchmark, […]

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]]> 6034 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Recognizes Top Accomplishments in Running Science Apps on HPC http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/08/25/acm-gordon-bell-prize-recognizes-top-accomplishments-running-science-apps-hpc/ Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:30:58 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3607 For the first time, SC conference releases a comprehensive list of all Gordon Bell winners since 1987. Here is that historical perspective. Each year at SC, two key indicators of HPC performance are highlighted. Both were created to provide a more accurate measure of overall performance than the theoretical peak performance levels sometimes touted by […]

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]]> 3607 Jack Dongarra Shares his Assessment of World’s Newest No. 1 Supercomputer http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/06/20/sc16s-jack-dongarra-shares-assessment-worlds-newest-no-1-supercomputer/ Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:15:24 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3100 The release of the 47th TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers on June 20 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany showed a new No. 1 system – the Sunway TaihuLight machine in China that is nearly three times as fast and three times as efficient as system it displaces in the top spot. […]

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